# Invisible links

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-links/523878>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 6, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-links/523878 "2010-01-06T07:20:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![contradancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@contradancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/contradancer)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-links/523878/1 "2010-01-06T07:20:58Z")

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My computer crashed and I got a new emachine with Internet Explorer 8 and XP3 installed. Once in a while I run into pages where the links are invisible; sometimes if I click on the blank space the page comes up; sometimes if I pass the cursor over the blank space the name of the link appears. This hasn’t been a terrible problem, but today for the first time in a long time I went to Craig’s list and almost nothing is visible. I can’t find anything online about this except that sometimes there are problems with Explorer 8. But, links not showing is not one of the issues I can find that is addressed. So, I cannot access Craigs list in any way; it’s just a bunch of program symbols. Oh, also the compatibility button is not visible; not that it has ever helped in the past.

I usually can find something online; but nothing on this. Does anyone have any ideas? 😕

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-links/523878/2 "2010-01-06T07:29:29Z")

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[Use Firefox](http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/).

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**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-links/523878/3 "2010-01-06T07:41:19Z")

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> [@Duckster](#):
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> [Use Firefox](http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/).

[You stole my answer](http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/).

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**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-links/523878/4 "2010-01-06T15:51:33Z")

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I switched to Firefox because IE was being temperamental like that… and I’ve never looked back.

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**Author:** ![contradancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@contradancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/contradancer)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-links/523878/5 "2010-01-08T05:53:45Z")

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I finally had to go to Microsoft technical help. They apparently have a group that handles just IE 8 problems. He was able to fix the problem in about 15 minutes.

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**Author:** ![krebbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@krebbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krebbin)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-links/523878/6 "2010-01-08T21:41:35Z")

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IE8 has a Reset button, which fixes almost any corruption in it I’ve ever come across.

I still like the look/feel of it over Firefox, but for most browsing I now use Chrome.